TARSOS Joren Six

● Introduction ● Background ● Dataset ● Goal ● Methodology ● Tarsos ● Inner workings ● Demo ● Conclusions & Opportunities OUTLINE

INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND I work together with Olmo Cornelis - Ghent University - University College Ghent - University College Ghent / Ghent University His previous project: DEKKMMA “Digitization of the Ethnomusicological Sound Archive of the Royal Museum for Central Africa”

Digitization of the sound archive: -Audio: sound recordings – hours of music items digitized. -Meta-data : items digitized -Provides contextual data Development of database and website Exploration of MIR-techniques. INTRODUCTION DATASET

Provide access to archives with ethnic music that deal with a large variability of music, users, search intentions and expectations. INTRODUCTION GOAL

Develop a method yielding culture independent views on musical parameters by using or adapting existing MIR-techniques. A computer scientist was hired (me) to do Computational Ethnomusicology Access to ethnic music: Advances and perspectives in content-based music information retrieval - Cornelis, O., Lesaffre, M., Moelants, D. & Leman, M. Apr-2010 In : Signal Processing. 90, 4, p p. METHODOLOGY

The project is split according to musical parameters: ● Pitch ● Tempo ● Timbre METHODOLOGY

An easy to use, open system to extract and explore pitch organization in musical audio for scientific, educational and artistic purposes. TARSOS

TARSOS INNER WORKINGS

TARSOS DEMO

Tarsos delivers: ● Scientific data - Historical temperaments. - African tone scales are becoming more western like Moelants,D.,Cornelis,O.,Leman,M.:Exploring african tone scales. Proceedings of 9th ISMIR Conference (2009) ● Artistic input e.g. experimentation with microtonal compositions. ● Educational opportunities: improve intonation. CONCLUSIONS

CONCLUSIONS FUTURE WORK ● Apply the capabilities on our dataset ● Tone scale correlation ● Start working on tempo and timbre ● Combine tempo, timbre and pitch Work together

Audio alone might not be sufficient to describe and/or retrieve ethnic music: What does it mean to search and retrieve music from a culture where the word “music” exists only in connection to body movement, smell, taste, colour. The idea of separating sound from the rest of its physical environment (movement, smell, taste, colour) may well be a weird “invention” of the West. We cannot understand ethnic music correct without its social function and context! DISCLAIMER

Ladrang Kandamanyura courtesy of: WERGO/Schott Music & Media, Mainz, Germany, Museum Collection Berlin Lestari - The Hood Collection, Early Field Recordings from Java (SM ) Recorded in 1957 and in Java - First release CREDITS

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